#8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $1600: We'll take a castle tour of this nation, the northernmost of the 3 Baltic states; Narva's is an impressive one Estonia |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $200: Let's Czech in with this capital where Smetana & Dvorak both lived Prague |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $400 (Daily Double): Something to sink your teeth into... a signed document by Vlad the Impaler in 1459 is the first written appearance of this capital Bucharest |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $400: Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west Oslo |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $600: Completed in the 1490s, Nydegg Church is a landmark in this city, capital of both its nation & its same-named Canton Bern |
#8616, aired 2022-04-11 | A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR $800: Not Moscow but this capital 300 miles north of the Black Sea is the "mother of Rus cities" Kyiv |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, Hungary.) The Széchenyi Chain Bridge was the first to permanently span this river and connect the two old cities that form Hungary's capital. At the time, there was debate over Budapest versus Pestbuda the Danube |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Nuremberg, Germany.) With some 50 million cookies produced each year in all sizes and shapes, Nuremberg, Germany is this Christmas treat capital of the world gingerbread cookie |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) The Vienna State Opera House was built in Neo this style to reflect that 16th century period of artistic rediscovery when the art form of opera was born Renaissance |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The largest synagogue in Europe is found in Budapest, and in 1865, this Hungarian composer and keyboard master stopped by to play the organ (Franz) Liszt |
#8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew at Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg, Austria.) With beautiful landscaping, fountains, and statues, Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg was created in the 1600s but first opened to the public in 1854 by this longtime emperor of Austria Franz Joseph |
#8067, aired 2019-10-08 | HISTORY, THROUGH THE CENTURIES $200: 14th: Around 1347 the bacterium Yersinia pestis begins a European tour known by this "colorful" 2-word phrase black death |
#8039, aired 2019-07-18 | A TOUR OF EUROPE $800: Most of this largest European alpine lake belongs to the Swiss, the rest to France, the view--to everyone Lake Geneva |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | CONTEMPORARIES $1600: In 1698 Captain Kidd sailed the seas & this leader came home from a 17-month European tour to crush a revolt in Moscow Peter the Great |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | IN THE COOKIE JAR $400: A European tour with this brand includes Milano, Brussels & Geneva cookies Pepperidge Farm |
#4722, aired 2005-03-01 | HARLEM GLOBETROTTIN' $1000: On a 1963 European tour, the Globetrotters performed in a private audience before this new pope Paul VI |
#4543, aired 2004-05-12 | A EUROPEAN TOUR $400: Snowboarding is big at Gstaad in this country, but the term apres-snowboard hasn't really caught on Switzerland |
#4543, aired 2004-05-12 | A EUROPEAN TOUR $800: Now that it's a hotel, any schlub can stay at storied Dalhousie Castle in this Scottish capital Edinburgh |
#4543, aired 2004-05-12 | A EUROPEAN TOUR $1200: Tired of Swedish smorgasbord? Cross the Kattegat for some of this peninsular country's smorrebrod Denmark |
#4543, aired 2004-05-12 | A EUROPEAN TOUR $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Munich, Germany.) This automaker's Munich office building consists of four 22-story towers representing a four-cylinder engine BMW |
#4543, aired 2004-05-12 | A EUROPEAN TOUR $3,000 (Daily Double): Madrid's Hotel Florida is the main setting for "The Fifth Column", a rare play by this American writer who loved Spain Ernest Hemingway |
#4275, aired 2003-03-14 | PORGY-POURRI $400: Now a famous poet, she played Ruby in the acclaimed European tour of "Porgy and Bess" in the mid-'50s Maya Angelou |
#4154, aired 2002-09-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Beatles tune that's "dying to take you away" to a European bike race begun in 1903 The Magical Mystery Tour de France |
#3365, aired 1999-04-02 | THE SPORTING LIFE $800: In 1998 a drug scandal caused 93 of 189 riders to drop out of this European bike race Tour de France |
#881, aired 1988-06-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: In 1900, at age 13, A. Rubenstein went on his 1st European concert tour, playing this instrument piano |